<p.kinsler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Bill Miller <billmillerkt4ye@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> PRL "Plasmon-Assisted Two-Slit Transmission: Young's Experiment
>> Revisited"
>
>> Assuming that the experimental results are correct, what does this mean
>> to
>> the whole panoply of ideas associated with Quantum mechanics?
>
> OK, so I can couple the light at the slits in a Young's-like Experiment
> using plasmons excited on a metal screen.
>
> But this says little about the usual Young's Experiment which uses
> (assumes) a non-metallic screen, with no plasmon coupling.
>
> And it says even less about quantum mechanics -- I can still use QM to
> describe either type of experiment.
>
Yep. By all means.
I'm not looking to throw the baby out with the bath, and if QM
descriptions
provide solutions that work, then go for it.
What I AM suggesting is that QM solutions are not the only ones that fit.
And that viewing a slit as a slot antenna seems to provide a reasonable
(logical) alternate solution. And you don't need statistics to make it
work!
Bill
Bill
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